When I talk to colleagues about social needs and social entrepreneurship, about making profit not just in terms of money, but also social profit, the reactions are most of all very positive. People like these ideas, independent from which kind of career level they have reached. The meaningfulness of acting and changing for a better…
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Why knowing the marshmallow test is important for creating social impact
Do you know the marshmallow test? The original “marshmallow test” was conducted by Stanford psychology professor Walter Mischel in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The test was meant to measure which children could delay gratification. Follow-up studies showed that children who could postpone eating a marshmallow at age 4 outpaced their peers in many…
Everyone is a genius – It is all about perspectives
Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree It will live its whole life believing he is stupid. Albert Einstein Have you ever thought who might be an expert for detecting breast cancer at a very early stage just by palpation? Probably those who for years…